Question

political competition is healthy in a democracy? give reasons to support the statement.​

Answer 1

Answer:

The nature of democracy is that elected officials are accountable to the people, and they must return to the voters at prescribed intervals to seek their mandate to continue in office. For that reason, most democratic constitutions provide that elections are held at fixed regular intervals.

Political competition is healthy in a democracy as it,

(i)It creates a sense of disunity and factionalism.

(ii)Political competition helps to force political parties and leaders to serve people.

(iii) It gives a fair chance to people for the responsible government.

(iv)Political competition causes divisions and some ugliness.

Regular electoral competition provides incentives to political parties and leaders. Political parties know that if they raise issues that people want to be raised, their popularity and chances of victory will increase in the next elections.

Answer 2

• There are some reasons which support the statement such as political competition is healthy in a democracy.

• As we know that it creates a sense of factionalism and disunity.

• The divisions and ugliness are caused by political compitation. the election is based on it.

• For responsible government, political competition gives a fair chance to people.

• As we know it helps to force political parties to serve people. also it has many limitations.